Trade Letters Reveal Salem Imports and Exports in 1810
Old Salem archives show 1810 prices for wheat, molasses, coffee and sugar, plus board and wood costs. The articles detail barter trade with Norfolk and Raleigh, licenses for printing, and subscriptions, illustrating Salem's early economic activity and regional connections.
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Old Salen
Salem
America
Europe
North Carolina
Moravian Church
Winston- Salem
Adelaide Fries
Curtis & Kerr
Norfolk
Virginia
Salem Trade Letters Reveal Early 19th Century Links
This Salem archive piece highlights the 1810 Wellin letter from London detailing magazine subscriptions hymn books and music for Salem. It traces Hamburg and Hamburg Charleston shipments and paints a picture of Salem’s import export network with Germany and Baltic ports.
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I. L. Wellin
London
Salem
Conference At Blue Ridge Opens July 14
The eighteenth annual Southern Conference on Human Relations in Industry will meet in Blue Ridge July 14 to 16 1938. A two section format starts with an executives only session July 14 at Asheville and a general conference at Blue Ridge July 14–16 with talks by C S Ching James S Thomas Julian S Miller and others on Private Industry Public Good.
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Enterprise
Atlanta
Southern Conference On Human Relations
Blue Ridge
E. G. Wilson
Battery Park
Asheville
N. C
C. S. Ching
United States Rubber Company
James S. Thomas
Chrysler Institute of Engineering
Detroit
Mich
Ching
Thomas
Julians. Miller
The
Charlotte Observer
J. Douglas Brown
Princeton University
Macon Miller
Lynchburg
Radford
William Conover
First Baptist Church
Tallahassee
Fila
Patterns in pictures: spotting and using natural arrangements
Photographer John van Guilder urges looking for patterns in everyday scenes from beach shadows to wheel spokes and scaffolding. Aim for formal groupings and criss cross shadows to add unusual interest, shooting through frames and highlighting repeating shapes in ironwork bridges and utility lines.
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John van Guilder
Salem Trade Network Shifts to Charleston from North Carolina Ports
Letters show Salem exporting tobacco and whisky from Charleston connections while Wilmington and Fayetteville faced risks from hidden sand-bars on the Cape Fear coast. Moravian Bethlehem supplied books and goods, and firms Snowden Lothrop Forrest and Robinson Patton engaged in extensive trade with Salem, exchanging imports like bottles and rice for tobacco and whisky.
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Salem
Curtis & Kerr
Samuel Stotts
Raleigh
State Bank
Joseph Gales, Esq
Ciottlieh Byhan
Bank of Newbern
Diaconsc
Joseph Gales
North American Review
Raleigh Register
National Intellice Revised Statutes
Carolina
Griffith's Law Register
Elliott’s Botany of
South Carolina
Wilmington
Fayetteville
Seville
Robinson & Patton
Charleston
Germany
Herrnhut
Gnadau
Abraham Duerninger& Company
Capribbon
Hamburg
Europe
Norfolk
United States Customs Service
Sandford & Smith
Benjamin Bolitho
Bethlehem
North Carolina
Cape Fear Rive
Snowden, Lothrop & Forrest
Guilford County Realty Transfers Summary
Guilford County transfers list multiple property deeds across High Point townships including Beat Street Clark plot Oak Avenue and Country Club drive tracts. Buyers include A D Creech and H Anderson with spouses and Myrtle T Anderson with others, plus L Herbin commissioner and W J Putman among others.
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High Point Township
A. D. Creech
Roma L. Newman
Beat Street
C. Clark
Myrtle T. Anderson
Clark Plot
Ed Clodfelter
Mrs. H. Anderson
Oak Avenue
Gilmer Township
James Glass
Tabor Hudson
W. W. Clendenin
L. Herbin
Morehead Township
Dixie Realty and Loan Company
A. K. Maness
Country Club
Lola H. Burt
John C. Thompson
H. Richards
Masonic Drive
Church Street
Widow Mary Beatrice Noonan and Mary Ireland Wed in Carson City
In Carson City on June 25 Mrs Mary Beatrice Noonan widow of Pacific air route pioneer Fred Noonan and Mary Ireland a Santa Barbara California resident were married here. Noonan who disappeared with Amelia Earhart in the Pacific last summer was declared legally dead on Monday.
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Carson City
Mary Beatrice Noonan
Ireland
Santa Barbara
Calif
Fred Noonan
Pacific Ocean
Amelia Earhart
Cotton bagging projects sponsored by AAA announced
Cotton bagging to cover 16 000 bales of cotton was among AAA sponsored projects during the past year as part of the search for new lint uses, said Dean O Schaub of State College. The note comes from College Station Raleigh dated June 25.
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College Station
Raleigh
AAA
Dean. O. Schaub
State College
Guffey Accused of Plot to Defeat Earle in November
Harrisburg report says U S Senator Joseph F Guffey allegedly sought to topple Governor George H Earle in the 1940 senatorial race to control Pennsylvania's federal patronage and influence the Democratic delegation. The charge came from Arthur E Colegrove after a conference with David L Lawrence and Edward N Jones amid intra party disputes.
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Harrisburg
U. S
Joseph F. Guffey
George H. Earle
Pennsylvania
Arthur E. Colegrove
Earle
Guffey
Average fruit crops forecast for College Station area
June 25 report from State College notes fruit crops of average size likely this year. Prices may not improve much over last year. L P Watson extension eculturist at State College cites U S Bureau of Rural Economics findings as the source.
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Sweden
Stralsund
Toenning
Denmark
Philadelphia
New York
Bro. Matthiesen
Fries
Baltimore
Bro. Seidel
Bro. Schaaf
Holstein
Bro. Reichel
Detless Busch
Gustavus Grunewald
Piri
Grunewald
Young Ladies Seminary
Boethlehem
Guilford County Realty
Clay Township
Roy Benton
R. L. Coble
Jones and
Garrett
Sumner Township
Robert Herbin
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M. Laird
Colegrove
Renee
Fey
Kennedy
Lyfaborg
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